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Originally Posted by M21Sniper
You know not what you say.
I will forgive your ignorance. You have never had the opportunity to witness for yourself what kind of adversary an A-10 is.
Even in exercizes, it becomes readily apparent the first time you face A-10s in armored vehicles that you are absolutely at their mercy.
On top of that the A-10s ability to withstand battle damage is the stuff of legend.
When used in it's element for it's intended role, the A-10 is one of the most efficient and dominant killing machines ever designed.
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The A-10s ability to taking battle damage is overrated, IMHO. Even if it does limp home, it's going to spand days or weeks or longer being repaired, and every day it sits out is two or more sorties lost.
It's far preferable to not get hit in the first place, meaning don't fly low - the A-10's bread-n-butter.
What happens when it's raining with low cloud cover? Does the A-10 have a radar with a high-res SAR mode? No. Terrain following radar? No. Radar? No.
Does the A-10s go deep to hit strategic targets? Can it perform SEAD? Can it carry a recc pod? Does it carry any cruise missiles? Can it carry and use a BVR AAM? Anti-ship missiles? Can it carry nukes?
All no.
Gr4s can carry up to 18 Brimstone anti-tank missiles, so they're no slouches when it comes to killing armor.
The A-10 takes almost twice as long to get to the target and back, meaning fewer daily sorties and thus fewer aimpoints hit.
The A-10 is a CAS bird with limited interdiction capabilities.
OTOH, the Gr4 can do it all.